Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is one way teachers can use AI tools to curate an entire class’s flow, its study materials, and practice tests without the aid of an army of teaching assistants. Teachers can use AI-powered tools like MagicSchool.ai , ChatGPT , and Chatterbot AI to create quizzes and exams that align with their course materials.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

In January 2023, about one month after the release of ChatGPT, there were already stories about colleges switching to “pen-and-paper” tests to battle the AI bots. If a math teacher gives you a set of problems to solve, why not leverage Khanmigo to help you solve them? Widespread fear gave way to some hesitant acceptance.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

I’ve updated Ask a Tech Teacher’s list of ten math tools we posted in 2016 to be shorter and with a new option. I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. Pricing: Free for teachers and students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Dan Meyer is chief academic officer at Desmos, and was previously a high school math teacher. He frequently shares his musings and insights on math education on his popular blog. Entrepreneurs had a mixed decade in K-16 math education. Some have put their video explanations into the service of test preparation.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

They’re often ineffective as a teaching tool, they’re easy for students to cheat, and they can exacerbate test anxiety. Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

Preparation for an Assessment: To prepare for upcoming tests or assessments, must-do stations provide practice and support in areas where data shows students struggle. These formative assessments can take the form of quizzes, short written responses, exit tickets, online discussions, and graphic organizers.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2020

Remark Test Grading Cloud available to all teachers for free, including electronic bubble sheets for distributing and grading assessments. is offering instructors a free 60-day subscription to its popular Remark Test Grading Cloud application.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Then, they find or create digital content, objective tests, and performance tasks aligned to those learning objectives, which they post to an LMS. Software-directed Instructional Model In this model, teachers guide their students as they progress through third-party learning software, such as iXL, Math Academy, Khan Academy, or i-Ready.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The district was among the first in the country to test the chatbot called Khanmigo, an AI program developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that is designed for classrooms and acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers. How does Khanmigo work?

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Most people associate Khan Academy with online videos, and that’s largely what it has been since 2005 when founder and CEO Sal Khan began recording instructional clips from his closet to help his cousin better understand math. We can add more subjects, practice modalities, lightweight quizzes and assessments, and also get data quicker.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

All tests are registered trademarks of their respective owners. This product has been developed independently from and is not endorsed by the International Baccalaureate Organization. International Baccalaureate is a registered trademark owned by the International Baccalaureate Organization.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

Students are lined up outside your door, not yet comfortable enough to talk to each other as they wait to be let into math class. But more importantly, every single one of them is listening attentively for their next instructions—right in the middle of math class. This step requires students to use a specific math concept.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2017

. “For teachers and students, organization is important, and being able to reorder class cards allows us to keep our classes organized in a simple and personalized way,” notes Ross Berman, a 7th and 8th grade math teacher. Soon, teachers will be able to import grades from Quizzes directly into Google Classroom. Sneak Peak!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning. When I’m testing a game, I have no way of knowing if it's going to be blocked by the school’s servers,” Angie says.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

The nonprofit ACT, which is best-known for its standardized college entrance test, privately demonstrated its new skill on an Amazon Echo Dot. The ACT skill, which provides general information about the exam and can help students prepare for the test, will be available to the public this fall. Alexa, when is the next ACT test date?

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Skills Quizzes Teachers Testing 167

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Renaissance Learning , a provider of K-12 software and assessments, including the widely used STAR tests, has agreed to acquire Nearpod for $650 million. Nearpod has since expanded the toolbox with features that let teachers create quizzes, offer virtual reality content for digital field trips, and embed mini-games into lessons.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

00:00:35 Speaker 1 The math teacher. But we’re not testing the teachers. And so by taking those together, plus adding in just basic assessments, what you know, type of test, the traditional test capabilities, quizzes. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

based provider of an online education platform has acquired AI-powered math platform, Symbolab. Initial growth came as a repository for students to share course specific material such as tests, quizzes, study guides and lecture notes. Symbolab is an advanced math calculator used by 50 million students worldwide.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Racially divisive systems are prevalent in schools such as mine (and in all schools) through traditional grading structures, grade tracking, standardized testing and punitive disciplinary actions—all of which further disadvantage career and college opportunities for our students of color.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

AI-powered diagnostic tools that identify areas for improvement and guide test takers through targeted study sessions. Interactive quizzes with instant feedback to reinforce learning and save educators’ valuable time. For more information about Study.com’s free Praxis Core Prep resources, visit: [link]

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

Educators shifting to competency-based models often tout to the power of allowing students to master a topic by taking a test again and again until they do well, rather than failing them if they bomb the first time. The philosophy is that such repeated testing will make sure they get to a level where the material truly sinks in.

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Study Quizzes Math Exams 128

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Soon, users will see a new tab labeled “Classwork” that will take them to a page where assignments and quizzes can be organized by topics. That means a math teacher can group all activities related to fractions, or an English teacher can post recurring assignments in just one place (instead of having to post to the stream every time).

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Issues With Feedback and Testing It’s much easier to hide in a digital world. But that’s not always the case in subjects such as math and science that require secure environments for test taking. and Khan Academy, which allows for timed tests. It’s a struggle for us,” Boyle says.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. No one wants to be at the bottom of a leaderboard,” says Deepak Cheenath, co-founder of Quizizz, a classroom tool that lets teachers create pop quizzes and games. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student.

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Gamification Motivation Game-Based Learning Math 205

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It’s a reminder that tech startup valuations are sometimes based more on potential than proof of revenue, and Kahoot is the latest test of whether a popular free education tool can successfully monetize and become financially stable. That’s the math behind its $2.1 It also reports that 4.5 million revenue forecast this year.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. The student knew the material, but she just wasn’t a good test-taker. Her score on that exam was so low, in fact, that she realized she had no chance to get an A in the course, no matter how well she might do on future tests and assignments. This is a serious problem.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Texas Education Agency awards letter grades to schools and districts based on test scores and other student performance metrics. In addition to districts, schools in Texas are individually given A through F grades based partially on standardized test scores. Miles quickly created big and controversial plans to improve scores.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. Nowadays that seems to apply to all sorts of courses.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

When you’re in the classroom, there are reminders about homework, quizzes, test reviews, etc. In my daughter’s math class, the kids started a Discord channel. How stressful is that for a student if they are virtually learning and their internet goes out? Faith Bongiorno Any silver linings? STEM Activities for Kids.

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Student Engagement STEM Students Quizzes 211

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Each targeted quest curates a collection of third-party apps, webtools, videos, games, and other resources that focus on particular math or reading skills identified by the teacher or from the student’s earlier work as an area of academic need. When all the challenges are completed, take a post-test. What is eSpark?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

Depending upon the tool selected, learning will also link to a wide variety of academic topics, such as writing, social studies, and math. Khan Academy is an online program designed to teach math skills starting from where student knowledge is. It uses a combination of videos, whiteboard how-tos, practice exercises, and quick quizzes.

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Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 202

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g., practicing math problems, quizzes, flashcards, teacher lectures, and so on). A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

There were worksheets, multiple choice tests, and lectures in front of the classroom. He would encourage his students to bring flashcards to use during multiple choice tests, and while students would indeed make the flashcards, they “didn’t actually use them,” Linane recalls. Check out the full scoop below. Instructional need(s).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 5, 2019

Topics include math, science, writing, spelling, health, statistics, SAT prep, engineering, technology, astronomy, English, history and more — over 5,000 topics in seventy languages. Perfect choices for this would be a crossword puzzle, word search, hangman, Memory Game, MadLibs, Typing Test, a Quiz Show, and Mix and Match.

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Learning Quizzes Activities Reading 144

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

I watched her during one of the quizzes and she paid attention to all the characteristics that would eventually make her a top-notch typist but were now slowing her down to about half of any other 4th grader. Anhil was much more knowledgeable than any other 6th grader about the solar system but his math skills were seriously deficient.

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